UPDATED: here is a new video on the same topic, from the May 2018 Thoughtworks LIVE London event:
Here are the essential slides from my keynote I gave yesterday, in Boston – the most essential Future Principles
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Here is my latest short film (the others are here) outlining my views on my #1 speaking topic: humans versus/with machines, artificial intelligence and the future of humanity in a world where machines can hear, see, speak, learn and ‘think’.
On the one hand, artificial intelligence (AI) clearly has the capacity ...

“It seems foolish and misguided to give a robot an official government status that creates any semblance of equality to an actual human. Machines aren’t people; even if you believe in the singularity we’re not there yet. Sophia is no more human than an old shoe.
The robot won’t be subject ...

One definition of AI, which is most frequently used in business and academic contexts, is a discipline of computer science that entails using computers in which the system (ie: a machine) learns from data. AGI can be something that we have virtually no understanding or recognition of, but which may ...

Here is the deck, below (PDF 20MB), More about the event here.
Business Technology and Digital Ethics Gerd Leonhard @Economist Innovation Forum Berlin 2017 Public Deck
Update August 18th 2017: here is the entire video (presentation and interview with Tom Standage). Note: you can download audio-only, MP3 versions of most of ...

Thanks to the Internet Talent Consortium and Cisco for making this video available – I think it’s one of the best talks I have ever given on the topic of Technology vs Humanity, the IoT and AI. Visit the event website for all of the other presentations held on that ...